Help my brain is turning to frog

Yeah that's what I mean.  It is turning to frog.

You know those big green frogs that live in your brain or the little ones on your shoulder and go ribit stick out their tounge like they are catching flies and grab any sense you have left. THWAK!

Some people call it brain fog. Well! I call it brain frog.  I know I have the sense, but sometimes it just elludes me.

Like the other day at work.  I sell cigerettes and do returns.  Well this customer wanted some Peter Jackson cigs and I promptly went to the cupboard that had Canadian in them grabbed one for him and sold it to him.  He looked at me like I was nuts.  Said that isn't peter jackson and I adamently looked at him and at the package and said yeah that is peter jackson.  It is just the new packageing.  So he looked at me again kinda strange.  So I looked at the package again and low and behold it was canadian and not peter jackson.  Appoligised up and down got him the right ones  Stupid! stupid! me.  That was a big green frog that just stuck out his tounge and lapped up everything that went along with this.  RIBIT! RIBIT! THWAK!

Another incident I had with a customer was I had to get a name and number from a customer to put in our computer to fill out info on a return.  All was going along great. Got her last name into the computer and when I asked for her first initial she said WHY.  Well I had said back because I have to put this info in my computer.  Again she says Why.  This goes on for a couple of minutes and then I clue in she is saying Y not Why and what a dumbass I am for that.  RIBIT! RIBIT! THWAK!  You know the comedy act of Abbot and Costelloo were who is on first and what is on second.  Well thats what it sounded like.  I haven't been left off the hook for that one yet.  A another person was working with me at the time and watched the whole thing.  She does keep reminding of it every now and then.

You know there are other times when I just can't remember how to get onto the computer.  I do it everyday, but sometimes you just look at the thing and say..OKAY now what.  I have numbers to put in there and they just don't want to come to me.  Well give me a minute. Oh good the phone is ringing I can answer this while I figure out what else the hell I should be doing.  Good morning Please tell me how I can help you.  I lost all my sense here and want to get them back before I go nutty all together.   Oh sorry thank you for calling  How can I help you..  Yes this is the store you are looking for.  I'm just lost my sense of reality for a minute here.  RIBIT! RIBIT! THWAK!

Sometimes at home I'm sure the walls move in this place. How many times has a wall reached out and grabbed me or given me a big bruise on my hand because it wasn't in that place yesterday.  I'm sure it was two feet over from were it was yesterday.  But low and behold I run into it again today.  Dang does that hurt.  And I still haven't learned.  Those little green frogs I think have something to do with it.  They will lean on your shoulders and make you walk a little sideways and closer to something so you walk into it.  They have such long tounges and can grab onto anything and pull it over closer to you so you hit it on the way by.  Well it certainly can't be me.  I walk perfectly straight you know.  I don't need a cane yet.  I'm too young to be using a cane.  Well that's what I say but those green frogs could be right you know.

You are walking along and it takes longer and longer to get from one room to the other. Just because the walls are moving and you can't get there in a straight line. You are so frogged up that you are heading for one room and end up someplace totally different and don't even know why you should be there.  So turn around retrace your steps to figure out what the hell you do need and it still doesn't come to you.  So the easiest thing to do is go sit down somewere and worry youself to death that you just might be going crazy afterall.  Well I know I am a little crazy but this much I don't know about that.

I would just love to crawl under the covers and never come out again.  Life doesn't give me that option though.  I know I have to keep moving and such but WHY!  I like it here under the covers were no one can see me and I am not bothered by frogs.

I know you may have a different opinion of how crazy I am.

I still function great but there is just sometimes were I am frogged down.  I think that is when that frog eats too much.  My brain just seems to go to mush.  I can sit somewere and just seem to go off into la la land.  My hubbie looks at me but I don't really see him.. Just staring straight ahead and not doing a dang thing.  He talkes to me and I don't hear a dang thing.  Well he calls it selective hearing. (yeah me too but I'm not going to admit it) For some reason I am just focussed on something on the other wall.  Maybe the frog is doing a strip tease over there.  I don't know but it is sure facinaing to me.

Well I guess it is time to get ready for work again.  Fun stuff you know.  See what trouble me and my frogs can get into tonight.

RIBIT! RIBIT THWAK! THWAK!

no more whining they say, So lets see what I can come up with instead.

Well I decided that it is time to stop the whining and get on with my life.

Well easier said then done.  I took the arthritis self help program here this past few weeks.  Gave me a little insight and now I have to be able to put it into practice.

Well the first one is relaxation.  Not an easy thing to do.  Sit for a while and meditate.  Okay.  I  find a confortable position and close my eyes.  Usually laying on the floor on a mat.  Listen to some relaxing music and go into a daze.  Stiffen every muscle on my body and then let it loosen to feel the tention go out of my body.  and remember to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.  Letting all the bad out.  It does feel pretty good but when I open my eyes again I see two sets of brown eyes staring at me wondering if I am okay.Then the slobbering starts. Then they want to play.  You know how many toys are scattered around me. So you got to throw all of them at least once.

These are my dogs.  Rocky and Boots.  Both playful little things that just love to be near you all the time.  You sit in a chair at the computer.  They are under your feet.  You go to the kitchen and they are right there to make sure you don't drop anything on the floor.  I hope they just follow because they love me.  Then you head to the livingroom to sit and watch some tv.  There they are again right on your lap enjoying having a belly scratch or just to stare at you intently.  I love these two.  They are the best I can have for love without any boundries.

Bed at night.  This is a workout in itself.  Especially if you have two dogs that just love to sleep close.  First I have to get into a position were I am comfortable.  You know the pretzel i have to trun into so that there is minor aches and pains. One leg straight down while I am laying on my side.  The other leg bent out to the side and bent at the knee.  This make an h shape for me.  Then I have to be half turned at the waist so that my back isn't bothering me so I am almost on my back and shoulder doesn't hurt too much.  Then my arms stretched out in front of me.  Sometimes they are under my head.  Either way they both fall asleep before I get to sleep.  Now the dogs get involved.  They sleep with me as well.  I know, I know,  Shouldn't sleep with your dogs.  They should have their own place to sleep.  But i like the warmth of them.  So anyways.  One sleep between my leg and the other takes up residence in front of my belly.  Part way through the night it is time to make a bathroom trip.  So now I have toget out of the pretzel position and around the dogs.  You know you can't distube the dogs at night  So you slowly pull one leg away from between the dogs and put them bothe together.  Then you slide onto your backl and pull youself up to the top of the bed, lift your legs over the dogs and slide out of bed.  Stmble to the bathroom because you forgot to bring your cane into the bedroom to use at night when your legs are stiff.  Then stumble back to the bed and sit on your pillow.  Roll you legs back over the first dog.  Slide down into the bed and then move back into prtzel position.  Sliding one leg into front of one dog and sliding other leg behind the dog.  You know they don't even move a little bit,  Jut kinda look at you like what are you doing then go back to sleep.  And my thinking still being do not disturb the dogs or your hubby for that fact just to go to the bathroom.

Well heres another thing I am suppose to do.  Exercise.  Keeps the body moving.   Okay. first I would really just love not to move, but that is not an option, or I would stiffen up even more.  So trying to do some stretching.  Yeah on the floor.  A little yoga into the action.  Put the mat on the floor and guess what a dog moves into it.  Layes right down in the center of my mat.  I shoo him away than the other one thinks it is time to get into the action.  I am part way through a stretch of a dog position.  You know were you are on you feet and leaning forward to have your hands on the floor.  you look back at your feet and there is a dog sitting in the middle of the mat looking at you like are you okay or what.  Then he decides it is time to lik my face.  What a way to throw you off balance.  Another time I am laying on my back and you know that is time to play.  Arm stretching out and a dog grabs for it.  Figures I should have a toy to throw.  So you get rid of the toy and back it comes again.  So much for stretching. Its play time instead.  So you move off the mat to paly with the toy with them and they prompbly move onto the mat and lay down.  Curl up together and Look at me like WHAT were you thinking.

I guess I am only human.  But if I could be more like a dog I could get away with allot more then what I get away with now